Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-01

aneSe youth, H. Nlre, entered With Ine
rest ofIthe boys and showed q wonder
full proficiency in some branches OF study,
particularly in mathematics.
- There are considerably over sixty
thousand persons confined at the present
time in prisons in the United States:
This is nearly nine times the number OF
prisoners in 1850, so that, even making
Observation-Disclosures in population, crime,
or lat, any rate punishment for crime, IS
much more general now than then. The
West compares very favorably with the
East in regard to, the proportion Of prison.
era TO population, and Massachusetts seems
the favorite home of the ,habitual criminal.
In b county of that State one inhabitant
out of every 270 is in Jail.
John Vanderburg, q strange white
man. was arrested at Rockville, Mo-, on
Thursday, charged with having cloroform-
ed and assaulted Jennie Anderson, the
handsome daughter of a respectable farm
er whom Vanderburg found alone at her
fathers house. The girl identified Van
derburg and he was committed for trial,
but as the crowd was dispensing several
shots were fired and the prisoner tel! to
the floor dead with three bullets in him.
It Is now claimed that the woman was
mistaken in her Identification of Wander
burg, and in their haste to avenge the out
rage, her friends killed the wrong
Her brother and another young man are
held for the murder of Vanderburg.
Charles B. Reynolds, an infdel lectur-
er, has been convicted by a Morristown, N.
j., Jury Of blasphemy in speaking against
the Deity and the Christian religion, n
was fined 800 although Bob Ingersol de-
Tended him. On which result the Green
Vile Neaos pertinently and appropriately
remarks: ''The verdict will be generally
approved. Public policy demands that
the faith held and honored by ninety-nine
in every hundred of sixty millions of free
and intelligent people, and forming the
foundation of their laws, should be pro-
tected by their courts from public insult.
with his tramp client. That is the most
appropriate place for their oratory."
- Judge John T.. Clark, of the Superior
Court Of Randolph county, Ga, has decid-
ed that a game Of billiards, played where
the one who is beaten pays for the game, is
gambling, and the party is liable to indict-
ment for that offence. The Judge further
decided that billiards being q game OF
chance, and therefore a gambling game,
persons keeping tables ut private dwell
1ngs are liable to prosecution when minors
are allowed to play, no matter whether
said minors be their own sons. The
Savannah Times regards this as "getting
gambling down to a fine point" and de-
clares that if all offenders under this rul-
ing were arrested and indicted, there
would be lively times in Georgia."
a rock which the Sioux Indians, near
Fort Yates, d. r., have, worshipped for
generations as the petrifed form of a
young squaw, was formally unveiled the
other day and dedicated to peace and
plenty. It appears that the white settlers
in the vicinity have long supposed thai
this specimen of natures art work exert
ed q restraining influence on the Indians,
but of late the rock has been removed from
its original resting place, and 1t was feared
that with its removal its charm had disap-
peared. So the suggestion was made to
Sitting Bull that the statue be placed on a
permanent pedestal and unveiled with ap-
propriate ceremonies. This pleased the
chieftain, and five thousand Indians as
sembled to take part in the strange medley
of Christian and Pagan rites by which the
unwilling was accompanied.
Vat Oskaloosa, Iowa, on Monday of last
Week, q large crowd witnessed a fearful
accident, by which William Andrews, an
amateur %balloonist, was dashed to death.
The balloon, about 20 by 40 feet in size, was
inflated with hot air, and rose rapidly
to a height of about 700 feet, Andrews
clinging to trapeze. Suddenly it was OBJ
i, served that the balloon had caught fire,
and Andrews was seen climbing upwards
to its mouth and ~endeavoring to put out
the fire. His efforts were unsuccessful,
and in two or three minutes the collapse
came, and the @ronaut came whirling
down from the awful height and fell upon
the roof of a business block, his body being
crushed beyond recognition. Many la
dies watching the terrible sight, tainted
and had to be carried home.
"A dispatch from Panama confirms
statements heretofore made to the effect
that the canal c%ompany's reports as to the
quantity of earth and rock ~eXcavated
from month to month, do not always in
dictate with accuracy the progress actually
made. In one of the longest and deepest
cuts, work that costs millions of dollars
must all be done a second time, for a
stream uncovered by the ~excavators at
a high level in the side of the cut, has
washed down enough earth to fill the
ditch. "One of the greatest %inconven-
fences of the rainy reason" said t.ie
Panama Star and Herald a few days ago,
''has been the frequent i%nundation of GER
tain portions of the work, with the loss
es and delay occasioned thereby" The
loss of work on which millions have been
expended must Offset the gain for several
months in which the average monthly rate
of progress has been exceeded 5000 900
meters.
The anniversary of Queen Victoria's
birth, which, as has already been announc-
ed, occurred on the Oath ultimo, although
it doubtless secured the customary observ-
ances and marks of respect, has this year
been somewhat o~vershadoWed by a great
er event, now less than three weeks away,
the fftieth anniversary of her accession to
the throne. While the Queen will thus Gel
citrate the 'jubilee" of her reign during
the first month of the sixty-ninth year of
her life, on which she entered on the 24th,
it is worth noting that two of the only
three of her predecessors who ruled as long
as she came to the throne at an earlier age.
Henry III, who reigned ffty-six years,
succeeded his father in his tenth year, and
died at the age of &c. Edward III also,
who reigned not quite fifty and a half
years, was crowned in his fifteenth year
and died at Is. Thus Queen Victoria has
Her grandfather, however, George III, was
over % years old on coming to the throne,
and yetreigned more than ffty-nine years.
The last ten years, however, could hardly
be called years Of reigning, since even at
the date of his jubilee his mind had begun
to give way, and thenceforward the virtu-
al Sovereign was the Prince Regent.
The weather crop bulletin issued last
Sunday by the signal Office at Washington
for the week ending May 2Sth, says: Dur
ing the week the rainfall has been slightly
in excess of the average in the cotton re-
gions from Texas eastward to Georgia and